Pentax K-500 Operating Guide

B

efore Using Your Camera

1

27

 

Live View

Live View is displayed when the U/i button is pressed. You can capture images 

while checking the composition on the monitor. 

(All items are displayed here for explanatory purposes. The actual display may 

differ.)

1 Capture mode (p.86)
2 Flash Mode (p.70)/Recording 

Sound Level (p.134)

3 Drive Mode (p.78)
4 White Balance (p.149)
5 Custom Image (p.161)
6 HDR Capture (p.156)/

Digital Filter (p.165)

7 Focus mode (p.105)
8 AE Metering (p.101)
9 Shake Reduction (p.120)/

Movie SR (p.134)

10 Battery level (p.51)
11 GPS positioning status
12 Eye-Fi communication 

status (p.236)

13 Temperature warning
14 Histogram (p.35)
15 Number of shots during Interval 

Shooting or Multi-exposure

16 Interval Shooting (p.128)/ 

Multi-exposure (p.131)

17 AF frame
18 | button guide
19 AE Lock (p.100)
20 Shutter speed
21 Aperture value
22 EV bar scale
23 Sensitivity (p.91)
24 Number of recordable still 

pictures/movie recordable time

25 Face detection frame

* Indicator 11 appears only when the optional GPS unit is attached to the camera 

and is operating. (p.280)

* Indicator 12 appears only when the Eye-Fi card is in use. M indicates that 

Eye-Fi communication is in standby mode, L indicates that Eye-Fi is not 

connected, and the icon is animated during Eye-Fi communication.

* Indicator 17 is displayed in white. It turns green when the subject is in focus 

and turns red when the subject is not in focus. It is not displayed when the focus 

mode switch is set to \. (p.69) 

* For indicator 25, multiple face detection frames are displayed when [Contrast 

AF] is set to [Face Detection]. A main face detection frame is displayed in yellow 

and other frames in white. (p.110)

K-500.book  Page 27  Friday, June 14, 2013  2:29 PM